HOUSTON - Houston Rockets center Samuel Dalembert's love for his native country of Haiti is far bigger than his 6'11" frame.
With the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on Thursday, officials at the very top of the Haitian government applaud Dalembert's efforts to help his country rebuild.
Dalembert has donated more than $650,000 for relief efforts....

Samuel Dalembert stepped off the plane and barely recognized the land where he grew up.
Two frantic days after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake rumbled across his native Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, the veteran NBA center returned to the Caribbean nation and could hardly absorb the chaos and horror.
Victims missing limbs lying helplessly in the littered streets. Children covered in...

In November 2011, Samuel, architect Josh Vanblankenship and Herby Lissade and his team of engineers from haitiengineering.org traveled to Marmont in the Central Plateau to study the location of the first Samuel Dalembert Community Sports Center. With valuable information in hand, Josh, Herby and the rest of the team...